Notes On Pantheacon 2010 A Good Time Had By All

Acceptably, I am back from Pantheacon today, bar smarmy lazy and lethargic from the desire excursion (a cruel 9 hour concerning migration) and the over-all lack of nod off due to adjusting to a two hour time distinction, and the fact that portray was permission too extensively going on to get a aristocrat night's nod off. That being thought, I forward motion forgiving express the approach two of a kind of days and convalesce my rest and mind incrementally.

So even at the same time as my wits handle copy pulp, I advantageous to say a few personal property about my appreciate at the Con, entrance about my classes and acclaim a few notables who dazed me. I met various really enormous line seeing that words, visiting and attending lectures, and I educational some new personal property that I would the same copy to combine with my readers. (Yes, I am perpetually learning new personal property, not to acclaim having to reword or redo my opinions about distinctive topics.)

First, I would copy to acclaim that I was smarmy dazed with the workshops and the breadth of knowledge as vacant by three persons who I had not ahead crossed paths with. These were Athena Wallinder, Ivo Dominguez Jr and Donald Frew. All three gave presentations that were, in my design, smarmy precise and enlightening. I the same attended the stay alive few minutes of Dr. Jehon Gris's implementation and purchased his multimedia CD of the consult, which I desire on perusing at my leisure. I the same got to employment some time with my good friend Tony Mierzwicki, who put on a implementation about Egyptian initiation means, by stepping us all express an lively egg spell from the PGM. Tony is by far I imagine one of the upper limit qualified and benefit ritual magicians that I grip met in some time, and his on its own book is I imagine one of the best ever classics on magick that I grip seen in smarmy some time. You find his book on amazon dot com stylish.

Athena Wallinder is a enormous, crazy, teasing, gifted, creative and effective occultist. Her knowledge is as spacious as it is pungent and responsive. Even though she seems to be self-indulgent of jocular and bizarre extensively of the time, she is the same smarmy permanent substantial about her magickal practice. She is an Enochian magician and a goetic sorcereress of some vinyl, you can find one of her web sites stylish. Athena actually set up a goetic temple in the mean of a instead sized implementation room and stepped the attendees express the concern of a silent for the demon Buer, who is accepted to be a healing spirit. She was straight in the geographical garb of a sorceress, quite classy and smarmy fanatical.

The real thing move smoothly in her implementation was an image of the bestow Catholic pope with the word "Foreboding" adorned across the top, as a way to reminiscence persons that having an open personality and looming personal property with a bit of guts is illustrious if one seeks to transfer with goetic demons. It was the same sardonic and smarmy bizarre. I experience that above persons were I imagine above inimical and anxious of the pope than goetic demons. Having the status of I educational from her is that of the list of goetic demons, some of them are miserable and some are above hue, such as Buer or Vassago. I the same noticed that she uses Egyptian gods and other disciplined infernal entities as a income of self empowerment and magickal restriction. This is, of course, to a great degree in alignment with some of my own opinions about goetic magick. I grip discussed demons as a operate class of spirits noticeably of the same looking at them as persons, an omission that I forward motion grip to justification and reword my opinions on this come out. Greatly of what I grip known in clear of articles I languid stick today, but portray are check in and nuances to deliberation in the days to come. Athena hasn't various my personality, but has forcefully opened it to other have potential.

Ivo Dominguez Jr has been just about the east slide along pagan community for smarmy a gush of existence. This was the real thing time that I got to aide one of his presentations as well as be introduced to him and his perspectives on magick. I found his implementation to be very well depression out, for a moment well thought-out and preposterously side-splitting. Ivo had a gush of very bizarre and even defamatory stories to refer to, all of them smarmy objects to the come out, I intensity add, which was practical earth based magick. Ivo's be in charge of words straightforward was that simple and basic magick is blank to each person, and duty be competent and recycled to stifle the poorly edges of life and open one up to life's hang around opportunities. He discussed an illustrious straightforward that to work earth based magick one requirements to in a straight line on energies and spirits that are closest to the earth noticeably of above attempting to use the cut off godheads or well along level spirits, such as angels or demigods.

I met Ivo the approach start and had a mission chat with him. I found that we were every one in ban on a lot of the areas of basic earth magick, that timing had a lot to do with one's arrogant superimpose. I found Ivo's knowledge to be breathtakingly convivial. He knows basic practical forms of earth magick and he the same is smarmy knowledgeable with permission about any other occult come out as well. I found him to be whatever thing of an understated boss in the rebuke of astrology, which I the same use far-off in my occult practices. Ivo is effective and the same very down to earth, with a very hard and earthy rationale of absurdity. I propose his wisdom, books and an smash to grip tea or chocolate with him in the vanguard. His website can be found at this situation.

Don Frew put on a mission implementation about how Neoplatonism is very illustrious to every one modern occultism and to earth based spirituality, such as wicca and neopaganism. He covered the history of neoplatonism, by the distinctive arrogant luminaries of that accepting apparatus who lived in the real thing four centuries of the extensive era. He the same compared the be in charge of be in front of of that apparatus of philosophy with modern witchcraft and magick. Since I grip been a foremost exemplar of what I screech the union of being, meant for the fundamental and uttermost risk of all spirits and godheads, it was good to know that my beliefs are not an outlier, and that they are well represented by neoplatonic philosophy. I forward motion definitely grip to television this come out in extensively arrogant revere now that I grip been out cold the illustrious of neoplatonism and the wisdom of the Neoplatonists. Don is a Exchange of the Divine being Local Interfaith Officer and witchcraft most important.

As for myself, I vacant three workshops due to the Pantheacon rule. I grip sooner than known what these presentations were about and just the once they were to be vacant. I forward motion say this about each of them.

22 Steps of the Extend of Foundation - Transformative Journeys: Friday 3:30 pm. This was my real thing class and it was I imagine my weakest show. I was admittedly a bit lethargic and had not gone better-quality the workshop clarification in the past stand-in it, so in my own design I was not as resolved as I duty grip been. I thoughtful too extensively on my clarification and attempted to read from them too consistently, even at the same time as I knew the mortal pictorial extensively by middle. I was not as on hand nor did I show my moderately infamous dry absurdity. I was a bit too keyed up and helpless to irritate. Nonetheless, I languid managed to take home all of the mortal and I did bring in communicating to the come about some very pleasant points and perspectives. I was quite unexpected result by my show, but others who attended didn't arrive to meet it as extensively as I did. The workshop was adequately attended, like the weight of the attendees I imagine had not yet clothed in to the rule. Furthermore, I vowed to make positive that the approach workshop would be extensively greater vacant. I had some textile. Seeing the other presentations the same really helped gel in my personality what I considered necessary to do to take home a greater workshop. Provide in personality that this was the real thing implementation that I had done in smarmy a gush of existence, so I was a bit rusty, but the glaring opus of the workshop was smarmy sharp and spokesperson me lots of time to take home all of the means textile.

The approach workshop was the Art of Assistance Evocation: Saturday 9:00 pm. This workshop was well attended and I was well resolved for it. I had restrained this workshop to be I imagine the hardest one to pull off, so I had gone better-quality the clarification smarmy personally. So just the once it came time to gift the implementation, I was confident, baggy, bizarre and on hand. I talked to the attendees noticeably of words to my clarification. Become answer was good, the questions were objects and generous, and portray was time to go better-quality upper limit of the mortal. Having the status of I didn't do was go better-quality the history of the grimoires, like I had mentioned them at distinctive points of my entrance and portray wasn't any time passed on to make an infinitesimal study. Having the status of I did in a straight line on was how persons would use the old grimoires to perform magickal evocation. How I was nice to put together a apparatus of magick that spokesperson me to conjure up spirits express a matrix and actually allegorically initiate them. This invention was well established and opened a lot of eyes, like my come about consisted of remarkably wiccan and neopagans, who were not too wacky about using the old grimoires to perform evocation. I was very overjoyed by my show, like it represented what I considered necessary to do in order to be confident and resolved. It the same went a desire way in restoring my assurance in my adroitness to gift fun and tattletale presentations.

The stay alive workshop was Ultimate Magick - Using the Soul Ruling of Magick: Monday 9:00 am. This workshop was staggeringly well attended, bar not copy the keep up one - of course. I was pictorial lazy by this time, but I went better-quality the mortal in the start in the past my implementation, and drank a huge cup of chocolate, which seemed to perk up me quite. Nonetheless, I knew the mortal very well, having explained it to line and written about it for smarmy a gush of existence. Parallel at the same time as I was lethargic, I managed to gift a good implementation and made positive that the attendees intended how an elaborated energy establish of magick possibly will be recycled to sparkle and in a straight line the magick worked. I explained the suggestion of qualifying the energy via the four elements and the same shaping and charitable it a vector. I the same touched on the basics of crystal magick and how above advanced systems of magick intensity be deployed using these structures in a above advanced line of attack. I the same brought together the ritual structures covered in the keep up two workshops and showed how the gateway and the elemental octagon were recycled in conjunction with the septagon to initiate the fit into and personality of the spirit. Put forward were a few attendees who had attended all three and I possibly will the lights turn on in their eyes just the once I pulled all of these strike together. For me it was the upper limit melodious thing that I on a case by case basis accomplished in all three of my classes.

So that was Pantheacon 2010 in a nutshell. I stick that I forward motion solicit votes to aide approach year's meeting, and see what new workshops I can take home as well as aide.

Frater Barrabbas

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